Women In The Prose Of Maria De Zayas
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Author | : Eavan O'Brien |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1855662221 |
Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and Desengaños amorosos [1647], which enjoyed immense popularity in her day. She has recently been reinstated as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. This study examines Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. Drawing on an extensive array of primary and secondary sources, and referring to the ideas of Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous, Raymond and Genette, O'Brien reflects on the interactions of Zayas's women in such relationships as friendship, sisterhood, and motherhood, analyzing these interactions through the collections as a whole, and connecting the novellas with the frame stories, an aspect of Zayas's writing which has often been overlooked by critics. EAVAN O'BRIEN is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Author | : Margaret Greer |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271041218 |
María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her “scandalous” works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership, drawing intense critical attention and achieving canonical status as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of Zayas’s prose, Margaret R. Greer explores the relationship between narration and desire, analyzing both the “desire for readers” displayed by Zayas in her Prologue and the sexual desire that drives the telling within the novellas themselves. Greer examines Zayas’s narrative strategies through the twin lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She devotes close attention to the weight of Renaissance literary traditions and the role of Zayas’s own cultural context in shaping her work. She discusses Zayas’s biography and the reception of her publications; her advocacy of women’s rights; her conflictive loyalty to an aristocratic, patriarchal order; her crafting of feminine tales of desire; and her erasure of the frontiers between the natural and supernatural, indeed, between love and death itself. In so doing, Greer offers an expansive analysis of this recently rediscovered Golden Age writer.
Author | : Edwin B. Place |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Short stories, Spanish |
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Author | : Lisa Vollendorf |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807892749 |
In a time when few women in Europe were educated and even fewer spoke out against the status quo, Mara de Zayas (1590-?) published novellas filled with criticism about gender relations. Her best-selling Novelas amorosas (1637) and Desengaos amor
Author | : Nancy Kerr Cushing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : María de Zayas y Sotomayor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520066717 |
Five men and five women entertain their hostess with stories exploring some aspect of enchantment or love between a handsome gallant and a lovely lady. The sharp contrast between the women's and men's stories transmits a subtle, often ironic, feminism.
Author | : Nancy Kerr Cushing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Ellen Kohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Spanish fiction |
ISBN | : |
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, writer of the Spanish Baroque "novela corta", (Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, 1637, and Desenganos amorosos, 1647) has been called a feminist by most scholars who study her work. This dissertation focusses on the author's thematic use of violence against women as a means of illustrating her feminist messages to the women of her time. The violent content of her work has the purpose of warning women about the cruel misogyny of men. The dissertation begins with preliminary chapters which address the need for this study, existing scholarship on Zayas (previous studies on Zayas have focussed on her feminism or on the presence of violence in her novels, but none has taken a feminist approach to analysis of the violent content), and general considerations on the author, the genre, and violence in the society and literature of seventeenth-century Spain. The three main chapters of the thesis are structured around the various types of violence found in Zayas "novellas". Two of these contain scenes of attempted rape, averted by the would-be victims through their rejection of traditional female roles. Women are murdered by men in five tales and the sadistic methods of murder Zayas chooses for her male characters to commit assist her in portraying this act as the ultimate in misogyny. In the last of the main chapters, the heroines of five other stories escape violence at the hands of men. They survive stabbings, beatings, and other brutal tortures and in the end turn to Zayas' favorite solution (in essence, the only solution for women of the time) for women: they enter convents. Maria de Zayas' thematic use of violence against women underscores her feminist ideas. She criticizes the males of her society as cruel misogynists and encourages women to be cautious, to use whatever they can to escape this treatment and to turn to solidarity with other women (in the form of the convent).
Author | : María de Zayas y Sotomayor |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780838753446 |
This is a bilingual edition of the only extant play, a comedy, written by the seventeenth-century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas. This edition makes the play available to a wide audience of specialists and nonspecialists in the field of Spanish Golden Age theater.
Author | : Margaret R. Greer |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1855663600 |
'Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested?' A pioneer of early modern feminism, María de Zayas y Sotomayor wrote poetry, drama and prose but is best known for two page-turning collections of short stories: Exemplary Tales of Love (1637) and Tales of Disillusion (1647). This book provides an engaging introduction to Zayas and her work. It begins by relating what we know of her life, placing her in her socio-political and economic context and addressing the issue of women's literacy. Following chapters examine her use of sexual desire, violence and humour in her tales; her narrative structures; and her oral style. The book then turns to identity construction in her tales and in society, analysing questions of gender, class, family and 'race', and to her treatment of religion, magic and the supernatural. The final chapters explore Zayas's status as a proto-feminist; her early modern reception in Spain and elsewhere; and various critical readings of her work.